Eve Notebook - AIAE

The 21st Asian International Art Exhibition 2006
"21 hosted by Singapore features more than 178 paintings, sculptures, digital and video works by important Asian artists from the region. The title of the exhibition reflects not only the number of successful presentations but also the theme – 21st century – to highlight the artistic responses to today’s global environment"

- Off the site of Singapore Art Museum

Too bad they didn't have brochures for this exhibition and Eve didn't want to steal picures...respect artists!

According to the history of the exhibition, AIAE had started out as a joint effort between several Asian artists which turned into such a hit that it was properly structured with a proper organisation to plan the exhibition which is held in a different country every year.

The works were arranged by country and it was no surprise to see that the works had differed in style across the different countries along with different themes. For instance, the Indonesian works had the tsunami theme popping up in some of the works.

Various forms of media were used such as acrylic, oils, metals, wool and even dried leaves. Eve loves unusual experimentation. There was one piece of work from an Indonesian artist that was a collage made from wool with dried leaves embroidered into the work. Another had a shovel pasted onto the work..no joke! It was a real shovel!

Eve loves to see old media used in different ways. Gone are the days where one can only associate ink and rice paper with traditional chinese painting. There were a number of bold works created using ink and rice paper that looked nothing like classic Chinese painting. Do not be mistaken, there's beauty in Chinese painting but it was refreshing to see that the artists had decided to do in a completely different manner with fantastic results.

AIAE can be viewed at:

1)Singapore Art Museum

Main Venue

20 July – 13 August 2006

2)Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

80 Bencoolen Street

3)epSITE, Espon Imaging Gallery

501 Orchard Road #03-18/19 Wheelock Place

20 July – 20 August 2006

Eve has only been to SAM and will work on having a look at the other two venues!